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Postpartum Women’s Quality of Life Questionnaire (PQOL) in China

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Postpartum Women’s Quality of Life Questionnaire (PQOL) is a specific instrument for measuring quality of life (QOL) of postpartum women, which included 40 items referring to Child Care, Physical Function, Psychological Function, and Social Support. Being different from generic measures, such as the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale, PQOL emphasizes women’s experience after delivery. The questionnaire was developed by Suizan Zhou in China (2009).

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With the increasing recognition of postnatal morbidity, the tool, especially to measure the women’s QOL, was quite important. Symon (2002) designed the first specific QOL scale for postpartum women, the Mother-Generated Index (MGI). MGI is an open subjective self-administered scale which allows the mother to determine both content and scoring. Although completely appropriate for assessment of individual clients, the MGI does not seem well suited for use in research because of its qualitative...

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  1. Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Bei**g, People’s Republic of China

    Suizan Zhou & **aoli Wang

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  1. Suizan Zhou
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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

    Filomena Maggino

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  1. University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy

    Mariantonietta Fiore

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Zhou, S., Wang, X. (2021). Postpartum Women’s Quality of Life Questionnaire (PQOL) in China. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_3854-2

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